Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52e624e023193a40…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.6 KB Created: 2020-10-12 12:48:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 6109a21236566e75b3cab66057d47af6 SHA-1: ec3cb68cb6ef879c53d88d2a7cf9bdafc05b12d5 SHA-256: 52e624e023193a403cb3575555ad94fb61005096f8c1445469f5a430f2007010
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to a malicious URL, identified as a redirector for SEO-based phishing or malware distribution. The heuristic firings indicate the PDF is designed to link to external content, likely as part of a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier strongly suggests malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://cctraff.ru/strik?keyword=kitab+ushul+fiqh+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bc6193f5-77db-4bf9-8efc-0b560e696434/74630228167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4ed6ba78-e0da-4581-888e-25652804c100/moxajodimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bce109b6-9067-4baf-93a5-db8f983a7320/56700102661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3ad3c79d-1138-4f26-9507-9478b624c329/43673807032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0488/3025/1173/files/pozofefusolijurikafopex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/1519/8104/files/life_nutra_keto_pills.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5960/1830/files/sk-ii_facial_treatment_mask_ingredients.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8877/1227/files/24565801899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3439/5295/files/sujikevanewusirigizat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0498/8508/5870/files/4317545584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0482/5812/1883/files/81984171043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4095/4773/files/hunter_left_4_dead_art.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9714/2936/files/motorola_3347-02_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5835/4584/files/56267431942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4783/0183/files/27144239332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0495/9895/5684/files/vakamizipuget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5730/7039/files/kazajiguminor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_006_off00009a22.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x9A22 20256 bytes
SHA-256: 3ef2d7ea6fc3f83292f9664f05662a0af10bc6cb634501abf625d0422664dc54
font_00_sfnt_off0000663c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x663C 5268 bytes
SHA-256: ca39fb894e4a5063313ce014b8bad5fbf5a6e9eedd6faba3952080f34ba0eadd
font_01_sfnt_off00007817.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7817 9880 bytes
SHA-256: faa6135d17894a026df0534c0ed7382ee0980c5dc3bbb53907f8561ecab5569b